The Beers

Alicia and I enjoy many outdoor activities. Alicia has long had a life goal of bicycling across America. It sounded like a great adventure to me. This was an opportune pause in our lives with a recent job loss (May 2009), so with just three weeks of planning and training - we were off.

This trek started May 24th, 2009 from Anacortes, Washington ending 65 days later in Portland, Maine (We had expected 60 days to Bar Harbor, Maine.).

3964 spinning miles!! Biggest day 115 miles. ~~Pete Beer

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Day 31. The road to Pekin.

17 - 19 - 20 - 25. All speeds we cruised at today. We flew before the
wind. Exhilalerating! 56 miles from Rugby to Devils Lake by noon.
At 86 miles in Lakota we turned south on Highway 1. Then we had
side winds. There were a few hills too and our nice average dropped.
Still, in all, a great cycling day - even fully loaded.

We covered 105 miles today. We decided to continue on highway 2 and
drop down on highway 1 rather than follow the route. We saved 25
miles and actually caught up again with two of the riders who rode the
last two days from Rugby. This isn't a race though it is nice to see
the rest day really helped.

Starting out, we saw some really interesting cloud formations. We
dodged a few storms and got hit bh a couple as well. The rain passed
quickly. I did get wet though it wasn't that uncomfortable.

The weather cleared after lunch.

This is a view of the roadside heading down 1.

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